So I don’t suppose this kind of disclaimer would work?
Although wouldn’t there be a certain ironic schadenfreude, if from now on, cartoonists around the world pretend to be acting in the spirit of these zealot’s demands and always clearly label all of their characters, especially those depicted ridiculously, as “Not Muhammed?”
Absent just plain weirdness, I am not insensititive to religious sensibilities. But in the area of publication “risk management,” what if the automatic response to events like yesterday’s is always simply a massive outpouring of cartoons ridiculing these zealots, without any reference to the prophet? Or if the publications continue to cave, maybe an immediate deluge of untraceable, anonymous internet cartoons far more than anything they could ever hope to stop with their atrocities?